Was the Comcast/NBC Universal Merger Behind Keith Olbermann’s Sign Off?

COMMENT: Yes­ter­day, there was the sur­prise announce­ment that Keith Olber­mann was end­ing his show on MSNBC.  It’s offi­cially being declared that this had noth­ing to do with the approval of Com­cast’s takeover by NBC Uni­ver­sal but that seems ques­tion­able given that Com­cast’s leader’s are staunch GOP sup­port­ers.
Com­cast’s long-time rul­ing duo, Tom Mur­phy and Daniel Burke, [...]

FTR #563 A Tale of Two Heroes

FBI Agent John O’Neill and his Lebanese-American col­league Ali Soufan’s unsuc­cess­ful efforts at inter­dict­ing Al Qaeda.

FTR #561 Economics 9/11, Part II

Recorded July 16, 12006
REALAUDIO

Con­tin­u­ing dis­cus­sion of the eco­nomic impli­ca­tions of vio­lence in the Mid­dle East, this pro­gram iden­ti­fies the oil-price increases stem­ming from the blood­let­ting as being of para­mount impor­tance. The more vio­lent and unsta­ble the Mid­dle East becomes, the more wealth pours into the cof­fers of the oil com­pa­nies and the oil pro­duc­ing countries. [...]

FTR #520 Update on Neo-Nazis & White Supremacists

Recorded August 7, 2005REALAUDIONB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 520 and 521 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
As the title indi­cates, this broad­cast high­lights old and new sto­ries about white suprema­cists and neo-Nazis. Begin­ning with cov­er­age of the Atlanta child mur­ders that dom­i­nated the news in 1980, the pro­gram sets forth information [...]

FTR #471 Death Trap

Recorded August 1, 2004REALAUDIODevel­op­ing a line of inquiry pre­sented in past pro­grams, this broad­cast exam­ines the Bush administration’s poli­cies in the war on ter­ror. Specif­i­cally, this pro­gram high­lights the pos­si­bil­ity that the Bush forces are delib­er­ately try­ing to lose the war, as a device for elim­i­nat­ing Amer­i­can democ­racy. It is Mr. Emory’s view that this [...]

FTR #470 Democracy Imperiled

Elec­tronic vot­ing, and other grave threats to what remains of Amer­i­can democracy.

FTR #301 Mickey Mauschwitz, the Reactionary Politics of Walt Disney

Walt Dis­ney was one of the pri­mary fig­ures in the Hol­ly­wood black­list­ing era and had a long pro­fes­sional asso­ci­a­tion with fas­cist, anti-Semitic and orga­nized crime elements.

FTR #279 Tabulate This! IBM and the Third Reich

IBM was cen­tral to the eco­nomic oper­a­tions of Nazi Ger­many and occu­pied Europe.